The NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Metorolgical Laboratory condunts the long-term National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) to track the status and trends of coral reef ecosystems of the US atlantic and Caribbean Reef jurisdictions.This summer brief provides an overview of the most recent survey efforts.
Survey site locations were selected to represent temporal‐resolution monitoring with moored instruments at fixed time‐series. These sites were placed on depth gradient to see how virtical structure affects reef status and trends. Pulaski Shoal (1m),
Subsurface Temperature Recorder(STR)s are placed at at all 4 sites and collect temperature measurments for at 5 minute intervals for 3 years. Bird Key Reef was selected as the Class 2 sampling site where additional instruments are deployed for a 72 hour diurnal suite. SeaFET pH logger, Tiltmeter and EcoPAR collect measurments at 5 minute intervals. Subsurface Automatic Samplers (SAS) collect discrete water samples at three hour intervals (n=24).
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Map of Study locations in Dry Tortugas National Park
This is a map made with R. Match colors if we used one panel for temperature
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Figure 1: Temperature data collected for 3 years at four sites in the Dry Tortugas at 1 m (Pulaski Shoal Lighthouse), 5m (white-shoal), 15m (Bird Key Reef) and 25 m (Black Coral Rock).The 1m, 5m, and 15m collected data for the full deployment. The 25m STR stopped collecting on Febuary 7th 2020.
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Figure 2: Summary plots of pH, Temperature and current speed collected from instrument deployment at Bird Key Reef site around 45 feet from June 25th to June 28th. Instruments measured parameters ever 5 minutes.
Figure 3: EcoPar light intensity data collected in PAR from the 72 hour deployment at Bird Key Reef
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Figure 2b: Summary plots of pH, Temperature, current speed and PAR collected from instrument deployment at Bird Key Reef site around 15 meters from June 25th to June 28th. Instruments measured parameters every 5 minutes.
Figure 4: Measurements of current direction from the tiltmeter collected every 5 minutes.
The Atlantic climate monitoring forms a key part of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program of NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), providing integrated, consistement and comparable data across U.S. Managed coral reef ecosystems. CRCP monitoring efforts aim to:
Coral Reef Conservation Program: http://coralreef.noaa.gov
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
Atlantic Climate team lead: nicole.besemer@noaa.gov